{"id":634339,"date":"2026-04-27T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634339\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:39:11","slug":"texas-qb-arch-manning-is-early-favorite-to-go-no-1-in-2027-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634339\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas QB Arch Manning is early favorite to go No. 1 in 2027 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 NFL Draft<\/a> is in the books, which means it\u2019s already time to start looking at next year\u2019s draft and some potential top picks. In what is expected be a terrific draft for quarterbacks \u2014 although, the 2026 draft was thought to be just that a year ago as well \u2014 Texas QB Arch Manning<\/a> is the favorite to go No. 1 overall at BetMGM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Manning (+175) has the best odds, followed by Oregon QB Dante Moore<\/a> (+500) and Notre Dame QB CJ Carr (+650). Carr and Manning are +750 co-favorites to win the 2026 Heisman Trophy at BetMGM.<\/p>\n

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Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith has the best odds for any non-QB at +750 and is the only other player currently with single-digit odds. Buckeyes QB Julian Sayin (11-1) and South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers (12-1) have the next-best odds to be the first player selected.<\/p>\n

New Indiana QB Josh Hoover \u2014 the transfer from TCU who will replace Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza \u2014 has 40-1 odds.<\/p>\n

Manning, the son of Cooper and nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning<\/a>, opened as the favorite to go No. 1 overall in the 2026 NFL Draft as well (and win the Heisman) at BetMGM. He struggled in his opening game at Ohio State, going 17-of-30 for 170 yards with a touchdown and interception in a 14-7 loss.<\/p>\n

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Manning<\/a> decided in December to return to Texas<\/a> and not enter the 2026 NFL Draft. The Longhorns made a late bid for the College Football Playoff, but finished just short at 9-3. Manning played better down the stretch, finishing the season with 3,163 passing yards, 26 TDs and seven INTs, which included leading the Longhorns to a dominant 41-27 win over Michigan in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl.<\/p>\n

A quarterback has been selected No. 1 overall in eight of the past nine drafts (in 2022, Jacksonville<\/a> took DE Travon Walker<\/a> with the first pick), with Mendoza going No. 1 to the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

The 2027 NFL Draft will take place next April in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NFL Draft is in the books, which means it\u2019s already time to start looking at next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[17076,708,64,63,3376,110478,31388,103353,186928,23167,1250,82237,593,85,187161,23175],"class_list":{"0":"post-634339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-arch-manning","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-college-football-playoff","13":"tag-dante-moore","14":"tag-eli-manning","15":"tag-fernando-mendoza","16":"tag-heisman-trophy","17":"tag-jacksonville","18":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","19":"tag-manning","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-the-longhorns","23":"tag-travon-walker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}